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Old 05-27-2024, 08:13 PM
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Looking for durable luggage and found that, despite the high prices, neither Samsonite nor American Tourister are now made in the USA.
LOL. I grew up in Nashua, N.H. Batesville caskets were manufactured in Nashua. Batesville was then owned by Samonsite. We saw trucks laden with the caskets leaving the Batesville factory on West Hollis Street (now condominiums) with Samonsite advertising on the tractor trailers.

I always appreciated the supreme irony there..aren't caskets really suitcases for humans? (Obviously not a productive idea to advertise caskets on the truck)

In the 1908's they sold large bags of "leftover" hardwood wood scraps for $5 per bag for local residents to use as kindling for firewood. I remember my curiosity when I purchased these kindling bags for years. I could not quite place my finger on where I had seem that trim before.

They were gorgeous 6" to 12" strips of gorgeous hardwood--for the fireplace. Until I realized the wood scraps were the beautiful trim from the top of caskets.

They were great for kindling! They used every bit of their wood though!